advanced manufacturing technology. we can rebuild the great american manufacturing sector. we lost nine million manufacturing jobs in the last 20 to 25 years. america can't afford that. we need tax policies, we need policies that encourage manufacturing in the united states. three years ago, 2 1/2 years ago we passed legislation that eliminated many of the tax breaks that corporations had to offshore jobs. we need to finish that job. the president said clearly in his state of the union message we need to provide tax breaks for onshoring, bringing those jobs back to america and end the remaining tax breaks that corporations get for offshoring. in so doing we build our economy, we help to balance the budget by bringing tax revenues back to this nation. manufacturing matters. billions of dollars of our tax money are spent every year on goods and services, many of which are not made in america. why in the world we would spend our tax dollars on steel that's manufactured in china to build the san francisco/oakland bay bridg